Arizona's twentieth legislature

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llRIZONA'S TWENTIETH Legislature convened in Phoenix January 16, 1899. Each of the two bodies was called to order n. by its eldest member, the Council by Judge J. M.. Murphy, and the House by Mike Gray.. Organization was effected
without friction by the selection of Morris Golct water, of Prescott, to be President of the Council, and of Henry F. Ashurst,
of Williams, to be Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The session, limited by law to sixty days' duration, will expire March 17th It has been notable throughout for an excep­tional
degree of conservatism. Widely differing with previous Legislatures, it has passed few bills, a very small percentage Of
the measures introduced finding favor with a majority of the members. A record for economy has also been made through
lopping off much of the usual contingent expense..
In political inclination both branches are Democratic. In the Council are eight Democrats and four Republicans; in the
House the parties stand more nearly on a par- thirteen to eleven. In personnel, few of the members are advanced in years..
To a majority the present legislative experience is their introduction to any kind of political office.. In the Council eight of the
twelve members are married; in the House the Benedicts are also in the majority, numbering ftJUrteen, The usual occupations
of the thirty- six are varied incteed, embracing ten stockmen, eight merchants, six mechanics, five farmers, three practicing
attorneys, two miners, one physician and one journalist.
The present session is, in all probability, the last to be held in the City HaIl of Phoenix, a building which well has
served as temporary Capitol since 1889, when the seat of government was moved from Prescott.. Though the Territorial
Government has been comfortably and centrally housed, it has been deemed best to erect a permanent CapitoL Under the
authority of Congress bonds have been issued for this purpose to the amount of $ 100,000. Thus substantiaIly backed, work
was begun in February of this year upon the foundations of the new structure.. The buildIng will face the western end of
Washington Street.. While not as imposing a pile as many erected in other Commonwealths, it yet will be large enough for
all executive and legislative purposes ft) r years to come, and in point of architectural beauty wiIl be eminently satisfying.
Around the site already is a park in which for years have been cultivated the rarest and most beautiful of trees and shrubs.
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Cerritory of Hrizona.
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NATHAN OAKES MURPHY,
Governor of the Territory of Arizona,
f EW WEST ERN men have been honored by their fellow citizens as has been the present Executive officer of Arizona. Twice
has he received appointment to the office he holds, a double compliment never before known to have been paid a Terri ·
torial Governor The present term dates from July 16, 1898, when he was commissioned by President McKinley to succeed
Governor Myron H .. McCord, who had resigned office to accept the Colonelcy of the First Territorial Volunteer Infantry.. His
re- entrance to office was greeted with pleasure by the citizens generally, all fully appreciating his peculiar fitness for the place..
In his dealings with the sitting Legislature Governor Murphy has shown himself frank and fearless to a degree hitherto
unknown in his position. In his message, presented at the opening of the Twentieth session, his ideas were strongly and
clearly expressed. Especially dealt with was the condition of the Territory's finances. Economy and honesty were demanded
in the administration of public affairs, and industries evading taxation were boldly enumerated. The Governor is particularly
interested in the development of the southwestern" deserts," appreciating that only through such development can Arizona
eYer attain dense population or prosperity to any high degree. His views on the su~ ject are clear, and through communica­tions
addressed to the Legislature and to Governors of Western States and Territories, he has set forth the strongest argu- ·
ments for Congressional cession of all arid lands to the States and Territories that contain them.. Through the sale of these
lands in Arizona all necessary reservoirs could be constructed, and the productive agricultural area could be quadrupled ..
In 1889 N 0 Murphy was selected by the President to be Territorial Secretary of Arizona. Two years later, in May,
1892, he 10gicalIy succeeded to the Governorship, having for more than a year previous been, in all but name, the ferritorial
Executive.. He was a member from Arizona of the National Republican Convention held in Minneapolis in June, 1892, and there
sucl'eeded in first plating in a national platform a statement of the necessities of the arid region.. In November, 1894, in the
fal'e of a popular idea that Arizona was strongly Democratic, he was elected by a large plurality Territorial Delegate to Con­gress,
where his service to .,\ rizona was both active and effective
Governor Murphy is a native of Maine, born in Lincoln County, in 1849. After receipt of a high sl'hool education he
taught for a while in Wisconsin. In 1883 he came to Prescott to engage in profitable Arizona mining ventures with his
brother, Frank M. Murphy, now president of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company.. In Prescott Governor
Murphy was married to Miss Nellie Banghart, daughter of one of the oldest families of northern Arizona. Fruit of the union
is one l'hild, a son, now in school in the East..
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Cerritory of Hrizona.
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CHARLES H. AKERS t
Secretary of the Territory of Arizona
NEXT IN importance to that of Goyernor in Arizona is the office of Secretary of the Territory This post is now ably and
}., popularly filled by Charles H. Akers. appointed by President McKinley Mav Hl, 1897, For a while succeeding appoint­ment
he acted as Governor, pro tern.. Mr.. Akers had strong claims upon the National Administration He was a leader in
the Arizona delegation to the National Convention, and his influence was one of the principal causes that s~ ung the Territory
into line for William McKinley
The first political experience ever had by the present Secretary was in 1888, when, he was elected Reconler of Yavapai
County, Arizona His success was doubly gratifying from the fact of securing a substantial majoritv in a strongly Democratic
Countv. In 1890 he was re- elected. In 1892 he was the nominee of his party for Sheriff, but with the balance of his ticket
was c~ ught by a politi~ al lamlslide.. He then took the place of clerk of Supervisors, holding it for four vears He was then a
member of the realty firm of Akers & Tritle till transferred hom Prescott to the more important duties of the present position
Charles H. Akers was born in Millersburg, Iowa, in 1857, two years later his parents mo\ ing to Shawnee, Johnson
County, Kansas, where he was reared, and where he secured his education, His father, a practicing ph\ sician, continued his
residence in Shawnee till his death. Kansas, when c.. H., Akers was a youth, was alternately cursed by grasshoppers and
drought, and so he departed thence, He was at times a brick- yard employe, a herder for railroad contractors, a butchcr's employe,
a fire engine house tender and a miner He came to Arizona in February, 188L In this Territory he worked in a saw mill
near Prescott, in the store of W.. S., Head & Co, at Camp Verde, at mining in Tip Top District, amI as a section hand on the
Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad, at Tempe. His main idea in life has ever been to keep busy. In 1888 j1e retnt! 1ed to Pres­cott,
to take employment as a bookkeeper.. Theneeforward his time has been oecupied in the publie service
The Secretary has twice been married His first wife, who had been Miss Emily Philpott, of Prescott, diect in May,
1889, while the couple were on their wedding trip, December 1, 1891, he w~ s again happilv mated to Miss Jennie Bryan, of
Phoenix.. From the union have sprung three bright children, respectivtly named Bryan, John Kelsey and Henry Harlow
In his dealings with the Twentieth Legislature Secretary Akers has made every member his friend, by reason of uniform
courtesy and by attention to every need that his office should supply.
NATHAN OAKES MURPHY,
Gover'nor'"
BRIG.. - GEN. H. F. ROBINSON,
Adjutant GenemI.
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CHARLES H. AKERS,
Secretary of the Territory..
R. L LONG,
Superintendent of Public Instruction ..
G. W. VICKERS,
Auditor · ..
C. F .. AINSWORTH,
Attorney General.
T.. W. PEMBERTON,
T r'easur'el'.
E.. J BENNITT,
Citizen Member Board of Control..
Territor · ial Board of Equalization
JOHN A .. BLACK..
E. A .. CUTTER.
R. H .. BURI\ IISTER
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR.
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Member · s of the Board of Education,
Territorial Normal Schools:
H. Z ZUCK, Tempe..
A. A. DUTTON, Flagstaff:
JAS H. McCLINrocK, Phoenix.
SUPT OF PUBLIC INS [ RUCTION
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TERRITORIAL TREASURER..
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HERBERT BROWN,
Super · intendent Territorial Prison.
IRA P. SMITH.
Assistant Supt. Territorial Prison.
Regents of the Territorial University:
M .. M PARKER, President..
S .. M .. FRANKLIN.
J. H .. MARTIN
WM.. HERRING, Chancellur..
GOVERNOR.
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SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
( Ex- Officio)
Members of the Live Stock Sanitary Board:
\' 1.. C. BARNES, President..
A. C .. MCQUEEN.
W. F. NICHOLS.
DR J c.. NORTON,
Territorial Veterinary Surgeon.
DR JOSHUA MILLER,
Superintendent Territorial Insane Asylum.
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MORRIS GOLDWATER, PRESIDENT,
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MEMBERS.
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Apache County, D K. UDALL, R Mohave County, J M" MURPHY. D
Coconino County, T. S" BUNCH, D Navajo County, GEO, A" WOLFF, D
Cochise County, CHAS, C, WARNER, R Pima CCJUntH~' J B. FINLEY. D
Gila County, G. W" P" HUNT, D Pinal County, DR A" C, \' VRIGHT, R
Graham County, GEO. A. OLNEY, D Yavap3i County, MORRIS GOLDWATER, D
Maricopa County, AARON GOLDBERG, D Yuma County, J H. CARPENTER, R
D- Democrats, 8, R - Repu blicans, 4,
Employes of the Council.
Chief Clerk, E. J TRIPPEL Assistant Chief Clerk, R S, MACLAY Enrol1i!' g and Engrossing Cletk, FRANK LUKR,
Assistant Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks, F T.. DUFFY and P" C, MERRILL
Journal Clerk, R. H, JONES Assistant Journal Clerk, J W MORGAN
Committee Clerks.
MAUD SCARBOROUGH H, L FULI. ER. J L, BYRNES MRS" R. C, FLETCHER
Chaplain, REV J,. M. WEHMS Sergeant- at- Arms, ' TIl B KELLY
Page, SIDNEY OSBORN
Watchman, W',. P,. ROBERTS
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urritory of arizona.
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PRESIDENT MORRIS GOLDWATER,
Member of the Council from Yavapai County,
JVI ORRIS GOLDWATER, p. resident of the Council, was bom in London, England, in 1852. In 1854 he landed in Califomia,
his parents arriving by what is known as the Nicarauguan route. In 1867 Mr.. Goldwater came to La Paz, Arizona,
where his father was engaged in business, and in 1871 they opened a store in Phoenix.. Mr.. Goldwater was instrumental in
havina- the military telegraph line built into Phoenix. furnishing office room and instruments, and was the first operator. In
1873 "' he was nominated for the Legislature by the Democrats of Maricopa County, but only tied his opponent, and a new
election was ordered by the Governor.
In 1876 Mr Goldwater located in Prescott, where he still resides. He has held a number of offices, none of them, how­ever,
being very lucrative. Twice Mayor of Prescott, and for four years on the City Conncil, he was re- e1ected to the position
last election. Mr, Goldwater was a member of the Council in the Twelfth Legislature, and Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives of the Thirteenth He served one term on the County Board of Supervisors, three years on the County Board
of School Examiners, and three years on the Territorial Board of Equalization. Mr,. Goldwater was a member of the first
Territorial Democratic Convention held in Arizona, and served one term as chairman of the Territorial Central Committee of
his party.
In the present session of the Legislature the head of the Council has been active in many other ways than in his presid-ing
capacity. He has worked indefatigably for his home County and constituents, and to the end of carrying out the pre­election
pledges of his party.. Among his bills are those for the creation of a Board of Public Works, and for the removal of
the Territorial Penitentiary to a site near Prescott; to lower the rate of interest on Territorial warrants to 7 per cent; limit­ing
the terms of Territorial officials to two years; reapportioning the legislative representation of the Territory, and others
bearing upon County and municipal administration and education, In the chair his rulings are accurate and rapidly given,
and his relations with the Council are marked with even a greater degree of cordiality than that which prevailed when he
was made the unanimous Democratic Council caucus nominee for the position of President,
Mr,. Goldwater in private life is recogniz<, cI as one of the leading merchants of the Southwest, the head of the firm of M
Goldwater & Bros., with stores at Prescott and Phoenix, He is an active and leamed Mason of the thirty- second degree, and
of the Mystic Shrine, and is Past Grand Master of the order in Arizona ..
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DAVID KING UDALL,
Member of the Council from Apache County.
" CHE REPRESENfATIVE of Apache County in the Legislature is David K. Udall
At home he is better known as thc President of St.. John's Stake of the
Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, a posItIOn that practically makes him the
business manager as well as spiritual adviser of one of the largest communities
of the Mormon Church in Arizona..
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 7, 1851. His parents, who had
previously, in England, embraced the f~ lith of Joseph Smith, moved West by ox
team across the prairies in 1852 to Utah. His father, who had become a Bishop
in the church, settled in Juab, in the central portion of Utah. There, until he
was twenty- five, lived the subject of this sketch. He married, in 1875, Miss Ella
Stewart, daughter of Bishop Stewart, of Kanab, and from the union have sprung
eleven children Soon after marriage the couple moved to Kanab, near the south-ern
border of Utah.. Within a few months, however, the bridegroom was sent by
his church on a mission to England, where he remained several years laboring for converts, mainly in London.
In 1882 ' VI r. Udall moved to Arizona to St. Johns, and there and at Springerville has lived ever since. He has farms,
grist and saw mills, and, as well, has been an extensive mail contractor.
This is his first civil office, though he has always been a pronounced I{ epublican ..
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CHARLES CLARENCE WARNER,
Member of the Council from Cochise County
..,... HE COUNCILMAN from Cochise County, Charles C. Warner, is the sole rep­"'"
resentative in that body of the working miner of the Territory" He is a
native of Illinois, born in the town of Somanouk, August 19, 1850, He lived in
Illinois, mainly at Mendota, till his fourteenth year, when he struck out into the
world for himself. At the outset he admits he did " pretty well for a lad," for he
penetrated to the placer fields of Montana, at Virginia City and in Alder Gulch,
and at once found employment at $ 8 a day. After a short trip through the
Eastern States he went to Denver, in 1869, and for ten years prospected and
mined throughout Colorado, at Tintic, Utah, and at Pioche and other mining
camps of Nevada, thus gaining an immense amount of practical experience in his
occupation, in mines and ores of every description.
Mr. Warner was one of the many Nevada miners attracted by the fame of
the great silver discovery made by Ed. Schieffiin in southeastern Arizona. He
reached the then booming camp 6f Tombstone in March, 1880, to take a posi­tion
with the Contention Mining Company, then working some of the best prop-erties
of the district, He remained in Tombstone even after the slump in silver and the burning of the Contention works
paralyzed activity. In 1895 he went to Bisbee, where he has since remained, in a responsible position in the noted Copper
Queen mine. He has never before held office, He is an active Mason, being Deputy Grand Master of the order in Arizona,
and is as well a memher of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Warner was married in Tombstone in 1885 to Miss
Emma Bernard, and is the father of five children.
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THOMAS STANFORD BUNCH,
Member of theCouncU from Coconino County
} VIR. BUNCH has distinction as one of the two practicing attorneys in the
upper house of the Legislature, and, as such, has been very appropriately
placed at the head of the Judiciary Committee He is also distinguished as the
member who, up to this writing, has introduced by far the greatest number of
bills. He comes to the Legislature with a very considerable amount of legal
experience. In 1880 he was elected County and Probate Judge of Carroll County,
Arkansas.
In 1883 he came west to practice law at St. Johns, the county seat of
Apache County, Arizona. He was two years at St Johns, and later at Hol­brook.
Twice he served his County as District Attorney, elected in 1890 and
1892. In 1895 he moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, a much larger field, there to
practice his profession, from which he has been taken to represent his County in
the Legislature.
His birthplace is Carrolton, Arkansas, the date of his nativity being June 22, 1852. He lived upon a farm until he was
sixteen years of age, graduating from the high schools of Arkansas when twenty, and though not legally qualified was at once
elected by a large majority to be the Coupty Surveyor of his native County of Carroll. Not being able to qualify, he was
subsequently appointed to the position by GovemorBaxter, and served two terms in the office, improving the time by study­ing
law.. He was married in 1878 to Miss Ova Scarborough, and has three sons.
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GEORGE W. P. HUNT,
Member of the Council from Gila County.
MEMBER WHO assuredly has formed the legislative habit is George W. P..
COllncilman from the great copper County of Gila He is now in his
term as a legislator, consecutively returned by his well- pleased constituents.
throllgh all the years has been clean and unsmirched by criticism, a
which he is deservedly proud He has cem Sj:: onsor for many of the
bills that have gone on the statute books of Arizona during the
years. He has repeatedly placed himself on record against extrava­public
service, and through the operation of a school bill passed
him thousands of dollars per annum have been saved the people of
He has made effective fights against the Circuit Court bills that
in Arizona, and has been particularly active in legislation affect · ·
interests.. One of the best- posted men on the floor in all that concerns
of legislative bodies. his presence is the mare useful to his asso­Council,
and his work the more effective. In the Eighteenth session,
by him introduced, four became laws, and in the Nineteenth the same number succeeded of twelve introduced
home town of Globe 1\ 1 L Hunt is secretary of the Old Dominion Mercantile Company, and is as well a member
f'n, rn, nrRtioll. which ranks as one of the prominent business concerns of the Southwest He has lived in Globe since 1881,
of Huntsville, Missouri, born November 1, 1859, of Carolinian Colonial ancestry, and of a family distinguished
the West.
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GEORGE A. OLNEY,
Member of the Council from Graham County,
" CHE NAME of George Anderson Olney is far better known in Arizona in con"
nection with the administration of justice than from association with grave
halls of legislation. Olney twice was Sheriff of his home County of Graham,
elected in 1890 and again in 1892. Till 1886 he was Deputy Sheriff and Deputy
United States Marshal in Clifton, in eastern Graham County, a camp which even
now furnishes many a sensational item, and which during his terms of office gave
a peace officer ample employment- employment that too frequently tested to
their utmost both nerve and endurance. In the wild times of border life George
Olne. y, ever cool and acti\ e, has participated as have few men of his age. He is
a typical \ IVesterner..
He was born in central Texas, at Burnett, December 27, 1861, and there
was reared, receiving such education as the schools of the vicinity afforded ..
Leaving home in 1881, he was attracted westward by the growing fame of the
newly" discovered m111111g camp of Tombstone. For a couple of years before locating in Clifton he lived successively in Tomb­stone,
San Simon and Bowie.
On leaving Clifton he bought cattle and a range near Solomonville, and there he has since resided. As a
particularly active in all that affects the live stock interests of the Territory.
He was married in 1888 to Miss Nellie Desler, of Tennessee, and is the father of three sturdy children.
Cerritory of Hrizona.
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AARON GOLDBERG~
Member of the Council from Maricopa County
JVI R GOLDBERG has been a resident of . Arizona for many years Legislative
office in Arizona, it would appear, is hereditary in the family, his
fRther Hvman Goldberg, deceased, having been a member of the session in
; 879.' M; Goldherg was born in San Bernardino, CaL, February 28, 1860,
There he remained till thirteen years of age, when he was sent to Philadelphia.
Pa., to finish off his education.. After three years spent at high school, he
l'eturned to California, ann shortly thereafter joined his father, who had estab · .
lished himself in business in Yuma In 1877 he came to Phrenix and opened
a business house that still flourishes and which is one of the most important
mercantile institutions of Arizona, Ten years ago he married I\! Iiss Carrie
Kohlman, of San Francisco, ann two children have come to the pair,
1\ 11' Golnberg is one of the strongest of partisans on the Democratic sicle.
Two years ago he was elected a member of the Assembly. He has served as
Chairman of the City Central Committee for Ph< pnix, showing himself pos · ,
sessed of political as well as business acumen, and for a term served as a
member of the Phrenix City Council, representing the First Ward to the entire
satisfaction of his constituents.. As a member of the Legislature he has been
especially interested in bills affecting educational interests, but has been active generally in committee, and painstaking in his
to secure for Arizona thc enactment only of measures of entire merit. One of the bills strongly urged by him in the
ann present sessions is that fixing a lower and uniform rate of railway freights for the exchange within the Territory of
products, believing that Arizona products should be favored within the Territory and used in preference to those
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JOHN M. MURPHY,
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" CHE DEAN of the Council is J M.. Murphy, of Kingman.. He is of Irish birth,
born in Cork, in Tune, 1838, his family being one of the most substantial..
Several brothers are high in the affairs of the Catholic Church" He came to New
York with an older brother in 1844. He accompanied his brother west, reaching
San Francisco in 1858. There he secured his education, being a graduate of St.
Mary's College, one of the first of the educational institutions of the coast, At
twenty- three years of age he was admitted to the bar, having read law during
his college coursc with the noted law firm of McDougall & Sharpe,.
For years his life was an ad venturous one, mainly spent in mining camps in
Idaho, Montana, Califomia and Nevada, sometimes as a miner, sometimes in the
practice of his profession In 1871 he was in Arizona, at the then lively mining
camp of Mineral Park. In 1876 he participated in the rush to the Black Hills,
where he became one of the owners of the noted Caledonia mines, and had a
working bond on the Homestake, now worth millions. Still following up each
mlll111g excitement, 1880 found him in Tombstone, He was back in Mohave County in 1883, and there has lived ever since"
He still has large mining interests, being owner of the Payroll, Champion and Twins mines, three of the best properties of the
section" At the same time he activej. y practices law, being attorney [ or some of the most important interests of Nmthern
Arizona. Twice he has been elected District Attorney and once County Judge, when that office existed. He takes pride in being
a " 16 to 1" Democrat.. Judge Murphy was married in 1880 in San Francisco to Miss O'Connell,
Cerritory of J'lrizona.
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Member of the Council from Navajo County,
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ALBERT WOLFF, Navajo's representative in the upper house, was
born in St" Louis, Mo" in September, 1868, his family being one of the
in eastern Missouri. He was educated in the city schools, and there lived
his eighteenth year, In 1886 he carne to Arizona, making his first stay at
Gila County" The next year he changed his residence to Winslow, where
since lived, He has been mainly engaged in Navajo County in the stock
and is now, as well, a member of the firm of Krentz & Wolff, owners
of the largest butchering establishments and supply houses in Arizona,
is also interested in farming, alone and unaided having dug an
' r, · i", atine ditch from Clear Creek, the only canal near Winslow. To this is to be
a large ditch the firm is now digging from Chevelon Fork, fourteen miles
The water is utilized on rich Yalley land near the Little Colorado River,
sbowing the capabilities of northern Arizona soil when properly and
I11tellig'ently handled, Mr" Wolff is the owner of considerable realty in Winslow, and is one of the most active partisans in
, tdvancinz the interests of his thriving little city. He is also interested in copper mines in the central part of the Territory,
a character that warrant the belief that a! fortune is within them for the owners,
canvass for the Legislature, though his first political venture, was phenomenally successful, Winslow giving him a
substantial and gratifying.
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JAMES B. FINLEY,
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Member of the Council from · Pima County
I N THE last Legislature the Councilman from Pima County was an Assembly-man
from the same bailiwick, and so sened as to win the support of his
constitucnts when nominated for even a more distinguished office. In the Council,
as in the House, he is looked to for frank, clear- cut, quietly- expressed views,
rather than for oratory, and is known as one of the hardest workers in the body
on any bill in which he or his County has direct interest.
Mr.. Finley is a native of Santa Rosa, California, there born Novcmber 23,
1856, the month in which James Buchanan was elected to the Presidency.. His
father, a well- known resident of Sonoma County, was an Argonaut of ' 49. His
education was secured in the schools of Santa Rosa, schools noted for excellence..
In 1877 he went to Nevada, engaging in stock raising in Pamdise VaHey; later,
in northwestern Nevada and Eastern Oregon, turning to cattle raising. He came
south in 1883, engaging in general contracting work at Deming, New Mexico.
In 1885 he came to Tucson, to enter the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.. A couple of years later he was
appointed master car repairer for the New Mexico and Arizona division of the road, a position he still fills. His work
embraces the clearing away of all wrecks along the line, and is considered one of the most responsible in the company's ser­vice
Mr.. Finley was married in 1895 to Miss Clara Letts, of Denver.
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AUSTIN c. WRIGHT,
Me~ ber of the Council from Pinal County
D R. AUSTIN c.. WRIGHT is now in his third term as a member of the Legis­lature
of Arizona, having served in the Assemblies of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Legislatures from Cochise County. In the Eighteenth he was the
Republican caucus nqminee for Speaker, being defeated for election on the floor
of the House by only one vote
Dr" Wright is a native of New York, born in 1861 After a liberal educa-tion,
secmed in the Empire State, he taught in the public schools of Michigan"
He entered, in 1879, the medical department of the University of Michigan, at
Ann Arbor, graduating three years later at the head of his class He pursued
post- graduate studies at the University for an added year, applying himself par- ·
ticularly to medical jurisprudence, and to special work in eye and ear practice, as
assistant to Professor Frothingham. He established himself in the practice of
medicine at Dexter, Michigan, but, on account of an attack of pneumonia, was
compelled to go to California in 1884. On the coast he has filled many responsi­ble
medical appointments, having been surgeon for a number of California and Arizona mining companies, including the
Detroit Mining Company, at Morenci, and the Copper Queen Company, at Bishee" In 189< 1< he received appointment as sur­geon
fot the Southern Pacific Railway, with headquarters at Benson. In that year he married, the bride being the accomplished
Miss Lulu Matas, of Tucson" To the present session Dr. Wright comes elected from Pinal County, where he has for some time
been resident, and is one of two Republicans elected in the County, which has been considered a veritable Democratic strongholrl.
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]. H. CARPENTER,
Member' of the Council from Yuma County.
J OHN HENRY CARPEKTER, the " Sen:; ttor from Yuma," is better known
. throughout Arizona as " Harry" Carpenter, even this among his associates
being modified to simple " Carp,." This distinction in popular nomenclature
comes not alone through a genial personality, but has been fostered by an office­holding
habit incurred in youth, He has been connected, in some way, with
almost every Arizona Legislature since 1883, when, in Prescott, he served as
Chief Clerk of the Council. In 1885 he was Assistant Chief Clerk of the House"
In 1889 he again was chosen Chief Clerk of the CounciL Then he moved to
Yuma and began to come to the Legislature as a member, In the Eighteenth
session, that of 1895, he was Speaker of the House, and in that capacity won
for himself high credit fflf his ability in managing what was undoubtedly the most
inflammable body of statesmen ever gathered together in Arizona. At that ses­sion
by his work and influence alone was the Territorial Prison saved to Yuma.
In 1897 he came back as a member of the Council, and so attended to the inter­ests
of his constituents as tu readily win re- election last November His thorough
knowledge of parliamentary law and usages of legislative bodies makes him one of the most valuable of the Council's members.
Mr.. Carpenter is a native of New York City, where he was born December 19, 1854, and where he remained till gradl1a · ,
tion from the city's high school.. In 1873 he ~ as in San Francisco, an attache of the Merchants' Exchange, and in ' 78 a resi · ,
dent of Prescott, Arizona. For a while he was Deputy Collector of Customs at Tombstone, In late years he has been identi-fied
with projects that involve the irrigation and development of southwestern Arizona"
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STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL.
Militia and Indian Affairs:
CARPENTER, GOLDBERG AND MURPHY"
Mines and Mining:
MURPHY, WARNER AND HUNT,
Corpomtions :
GOLDBERG, HUNT, CARPENTER, UDAI. L AKD
FINLEY"
Ways and Means:
WOLFF, \ VRIGHT AND BUNCH,
Pr'inting:
HUNT, CARPENTER AKD WOLFF,
Memorials and Petitions:
WRIGHT, BUNCH AND GOLDBERG
Enr'olled and Engmssed Bills:
FINLEY, UDALL AND BUNCH"
Education:
OLNEY, WOLFF AND \ VRIGHT,
Judiciar'y:
BUNCH, MURPHY, WRIGHT, HUNT AND OLNEY,
Counties and County Boundaries:
GOLDBERG, FINLEY, WRIGHT, UDALL AND
MURPHY"
Claims:
BUNCH, WARNER AND OLNEY.
Fedeml Relations:
\ VOLFF, HUNT AND OLNEY,
Agriculture:
UDALL, OLNEY AND WOLFF,
Roads and Fer'f'ies:
WARNER, FINLEY AND OLNEY,
rer'dtorial Affairs:
MURPHY, GOLDBERG AND CARPENTER"
Inigation:
GOLDBERG, OLNEY AND UDALL"
FRANK LUKE,
Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk
F J DL'FFY
Assistant E and E Clerk
J W, MORGAN
Assistant. Jgllrnal Clerk
H L FULLER,
Committee Clerk
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W B. KELLEY
Sergeant- at- Arms
P C. MERRILL
Assistant E. and E. Clerk
E J TRIPPEL
Chief Clerk
R H, JONES R. S MACLAY,
Journal Clerk Assistant Chief Clerk
L, BYRNES,
Committee Clerk
SIDNEY OSBORN,
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Cerritory of Hrizona. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
H F. ASHURST, SPEAKER
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MEMBERS.
R _. Republicans, 11.
Apache COllnty, - - N.. GONZALES, R Maricopa County,
Coconino County, HENRY F .. ASHURST, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, MIKE GRAY, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, HENRY ETZ, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, H.. M.. WOODS, R Mohave County,
Gila County, JOHN c.. EVANS, D Navajo County, -
Graham County, E. M.. WILLIAMS, D Pima County,
Graham County, W.. W. PACE, D Pima County,
D- Democrats, 13..
- SAM BROWN, R
WINFIELD SCOTT, R
- J. W. BENHAM, R
CHAS.. PETERSON, D
WILLIAM blUS, D
W. A. PARR, D
GEORGE PUSCH, R
F .. A. STEVENS, R
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County,
Pinal County, ­Pinal
County,
Yavapai County,
Yavapai County,
Yavapai County,
Yuma County,
Ons HAIE, R
ALFRED S.. DONAU, R
JAMES E.. ARTHUR, R
S A. BARTLESON, D
J J. SANDERS, D
A.. A.. MOORE, D
W.. S.. ADAMS, D
JOHN DoAN, R
Employes of the House.
Chief Clerk, W. D.. BERRY Assistant Chief Clerk, JOHN HOOPES, JR Ent'olling and Ehgrussing Clerk, H. J .. MRSSE~ GER"
Assistant Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks, C" F" MARSHALL, MAMIE MEAGHER.
Journal Clerk, P. P. PARKER Assistant Journal Clerk, C \ V PARKS
Committee Clerks.
JESSIE M. SMITH.
Chaplain, REV L .. J. HEDGPEtH.
LEOTIA StONEY J D MOORE
Sergeant- at- Atms, JOHN IMUS
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SPEAKER HENRY F. ASHURST,
Member of the Assembly from Coconino County
HS FAR as can be le~ rned, Arizona, in Henry F .. Ashurst, boasts the youngest officer who has ever permanently prcsidcd
over a legislative body in the United States. Mr.. Ashurst bears the unique distinction of election to the Legislature dur · ·
ing the first year of his majority.. Last fall, two years later, he was re- elected. He now occupies the chair of Speaker, the
unanimous choice of the Democratic majority of the Assembly.. His first election to office was by a handsome majority, in a
Cqunty usually c1eemed safely Republican. To his second term he comes chosen by his constituents unanimously, regardless of
politics, the Republican convention refusing to nominate an opponent.. He has given close study to the usages of parliamen · ·
" Lary bodies. His decisions are usually quickly and accurately given, and under the rule of his gavel the sessions of the House
have been uniformly serene.
Speaker Ashurst has lived in Coconino County practically all his life. He was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, twenty- four
years ago.. Soon after that interesting event his parents moved to Arizona, where, in the timbered district of the Mogollon
Plateau, his father engaged prosperously in cattle raising.. Young Ashurst's schooling was mainly in Flagstaff, Arizona, and
in Stockton, California.. He spent several years in mercantile pursuits in Williams, and for a while assisted in the manage­ment
of his father's ranch.. In 1897 he was admitted to the practice of law in Arizona before Associate Justice Owen T. Rouse,
and is, curiously, the only actively practicing attorney of the Assembly. His specialty is criminal law, in which line it is
believed he has the best practice of any lawyer along the line of the Santa Fe Pacific Railway. In the Legislature he is
notably active in all measures that concern the development of Northern Arizona. He is sponsor in the House of the bill
utilizing as a Normal School the Reform School building at Flagstaff~ and has pushed as well a bill for the encouragement of
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railway construction, with an especial eye to the building of a railroad from Williams to the Grand Canyon of the
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N. GONZALES,
Member of the Assembly from Apache County
" CHE ONLY pure- blooded representative in the Twentieth Legislature of the
Spanish- American portion of Arizona's population is Nasianceno Gonzales,
representing Apache County in the popnlar branch of the law- making body.
Though one of the youngest of the members, he has already achieved the distinc­tion
of a veteran in politics Ever since he attained his majority he has been
identified prominently with the affairs of the Repnblican party in his Connty, and
has been a delegate to every County Convention. Twice before his election to
the position he now holds has he been nominated for office" Seven years ago he
was elected Jnstice of the Peace of Springerville; two years later he was the can­didate
of his party for County Recorder, being defeated by only fonr votes For
years he has been secretary of the Ronnd Valley Ditch Company. At the last
term of the District Court in Apache Connty, he was foreman of the Grand
Jnry"
Mr. Gonzales was bom in Socorro County, New Mexico, May 2, 1867.
Since 1876 he has continuously been a resident at Springerville, one of the most
beautiful towns of Southern Apache County, situated in the piney woods, near the headwaters of the Little Colorado River..
His main occupation has been farming, and he is the owner of a valuable and productive ranch. He was married four years
ago to Miss Beatrice Peralta. In this session he has been especially active in reference to all matters affecting agricultnral
and stock interests, representing as he does the most important sheep raising section of the Territory. His name has also
been identified with several important measures for the better protection of {' be ballot.
eerrltory of Hrlzona.
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MIKE GRAY,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County
R: NOT UNUSUAL practice in legislative bodies is to call upon the eldest mem-ber
to convene the initial session of the assemblage. In the Assembly of the
Twentieth Legislature this honor fell upon Mike Gray, of Cochise County. Mr.
Gray was born in Tipton County, East Tennessee, in Davy Crockett's district,
April 1, 1827, of Kentucky parentage, When he was five ' years old the family
moved to Texas, there to remain till after the close of the Mexican war, In 184- 9
he started with his father for the California gold fields. by way of St" Louis. In
Wyoming his father died of fever The lad passed on, however. He mined, with
good fortune, in Calaveras County and on Yuba River, In ' 51, though only
twenty- four, he was elected Sheriff of Yuba County, and so held down the reck­less
element of the period as to win a second term. In ' 61 he went to Mazatlan,
Mexico, remaining five years. and prospering in trading and mining, Financially
hurt by one of the then frequent revolutions, he returned to San Francisco, to
educate his children, He first visited Arizona in ' 60, on his way south. In " 72
he was back, with a government escort, and explored the northeastern part of the Territory for mineral, with indifferent suc­cess.
In ' 78 he came to Arizona to live, being identified with the first mineral discoveries at Tombstone, and has lived in the
neighborhood of Tombstone ever since. He mined" till sixteen years ago, when he started cattle raising in Rucker Canon, his
present home. In 1887 he serTed as a memher of the Fourteenth Legislature, Mr" Gray is a widower. He was married in
' 53 at Marysville, Cal., to Sarah A" Robinson Four children were born to them, only one now living
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HENRY WILLIAM ETZ,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County.
- I) W.. ETZ was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1859.. He went to Tomb-
+ stone in 1881, and engaged in the cattle trade and in butchering, when
the great camp was in the height of its boom, and when the cowboys from the
San Simon and Sulphur Spring Valley ranges were the lords of the region. He
is still in the same business, though located at Benson, the junction point where
the Sonora road taps the Southern Pacific system, a to'An that has large aspira­tions
and not a few natural advantages.. Here he is the senior member of the
firm of H. W. Etz & Co., with cattle ranges on the San Pedro River, south of
Benson..
Mr.. Etz has never before held a public office, though he regularly has been
a delegate to the Cochise County Democratic Conventions for the past ten years.
While he has been offered several nominations for political office, he has never,
notwithstanding urgent solicitation, previous to this accepted.
He was married in 1889, in Tucson, to Miss Ada Nye, and has five children..
His main efforts in the present session hav~ been directed to the prevention of the division of his County, though
he is one of the members who prefer to work in the committee room rather than to orate upon the floor of the House.
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H. M. WOODS,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County"
J) ENRY MORGAN WOODS, member of the Assembly representing the southeast..
ern County of the Territory, was born and reared in Massachusetts.. His
birthplace was Southboro, the date of his nativity being May 12,1855.. His edu­cation
was secured in excellent schools at Lancaster and Templeton, He
remained in New England till able to cast his first vote for a Republican Presi · ,
dent, when he, like a majority of the adventurous youth of Massachusetts,
started to win his fortune" out \\' est,," His first stop of consequence was at
Forth Worth, Texas, where he spent two years, Hearing of the wealth of the
silver mines of southern Arizona, he then resumed his westward journey. The
transportation was by mule train. for no railroad then existed, in 1879, between
Fort Worth and Yuma, The trip was made with peculiar good fortune in avoid­ing
Indians, that then fairly swarmed on the route, He prospected about for a
while through southeastern Arizona, mainly in Dos Cabezas District and in the
Chiricahua Mountains. In March of the succeeding year he went to Tombstone, to have a part in the feverish activity that
then pervaded the mines of the camp, His first employment there was in the Contention Mine, under Superintendent" Si"
White, He lived in Tombstone until 1892, when he' accepted a place with the Copper Queen Mining Company, at Bisbee" He
has since then continued in the company's employ. In 1886 Mr. Woods was married to Miss Letta Steele, of Charlotte,
Michigan, the union having been productive of three ehildren..
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JOHN CAMPBELL EVANS,
Member of the Assembly from Gila County,
J OHN C EVANS, Gila County's representative in the Assembly, was born in
Venice, Madison County, Illinois, a short distance north of East St, Louis,
September 28, 1854, He is of Kentucky stock. He was reareq in Illinois, and
secured an academic education in the schools of Hillsborough, Ill., attending
school until his twenty- first year. Securing a diploma, he taught nine terms in
the schools of the St. ate, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was in
business in Fillniore, Illinois, for five years. He helped to run the preliminary
line of the Chicago, Springfield and St. Louis Railroad, as a member of the
engineer corps, and during the building of the road was COnnected with the work
on the Springfield division" He was for years in St. Louis,' M- o · ,: in the building
trade, and there, as here, was a strong advocate of labor and of the eight- hour
law As he himself expresses it: " I believe that when a man works eight hours
a day he has paid for his existence,"
Mr. Evans came to Arizona in January, 1895, first to PhoeniJ!:, but soon after going to Globe, where he has since lived,
an employe of The United Globe Mines Company. The present office is the only political position he has ever held, save that
for three years he was Tax Collector of Montgomery County, Ill. He has, however, through all the years of his maturity,
taken an active part in Democratic politics.
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ELIAS MELTON WILLIAMS,
Member of the Assembly from Gr'aham County"
€ M. WILLIAMS, representing Graham County in the Assembly, was born in
, + Coosa County, Alabama, in 1862, his father being a planter in the great
cotton belt of that State" He was reared in Alabama, mainly in Wetumpka,
where he attended the high school, afterward graduating from the Agricultural
and Chemical College in Auburn,
In 1883 he entered mercantile pursuits in Alabama, thus occupying himself
until 1892, when he took an extended trip through the northwestern part of the
country" He was in Denver until 1893, in the spring of which year he came to
Arizona to take the position of head salesman in the Arizona Copper Company's
store at Clifton, This position he held until 1895, when he was made manager
of the mercantile establishment of the same company at Morenci, a position that
he still holds..
This is his first political experience, though, especially while resident in Alabama, he has ever been active in Democratic
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politics in each successive campaign. This activity in politics is not exceptional in his family, however, for an uncle, Thomas
Williams, for sixteen years represented in Congress the Fifth District of Alabama"
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Member of the Assembly from Graham County
w. W. PACE,
WILLIAM WATSON PACE wa< bam in tbe village of Spani, h Fo, k, ao,," ecn
Utah, in June, 1857. He was reared upon a farm, and received such edu­cation
as the schools of the vicinity afforded. In 1879 he manied Miss Kittie
Rankin, of St George, Utah, and from the union have come seven children. In
1880 Mr, Pace and wife were members of a party that moved by wagon south­ward
from Utah He settled at Nutrioso, Apache County, and engaged in stock
raising, passing through many of the rough experiences that marked the locality in
the early years of that decade, when Apaches and" rustlers" alike plagued the
peaceaIbnly1- 8in9c2linheed wseetnttletro. Europe in the interest of his church, that of Latter Day
Saints. He remained two years abroad, visiting during that time all the import­ant
cities of England, Scotland and Ireland, securing an experience that he
highly. In 1896 Mr.. Pace moved his home to Thatcher, one of the most
ful town' of tI" fu, tUe aW' Giia Valky, tb"' I « oming a citi~ a nf Gmham Conaty. He ha< a pmduetiv, ,", m at Thnt, h",
and raises cattle on the slopes of the Graham mountains, to the southward,
ili' fivet nomination tn poblk office wa< that ,~ ci" d by him la, t fall in th, Demo" ati' Cnunty Con" utim,, but he ·
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]. W. BENHAM,
Member of the Assembl~ y from Maricopa County
J W. BENHAM was born in Minneapolis, Minn, October 3, 1866, With his
+ parents he went to California in 1873, In San Francisco he was placed ln
the best private schools, later finishing his education in the public schools of Oak · ,
land.. He received the foundation for his business education in the First National
Bank of Oakland, In 1884 he went to Holbrook, Arizona, engaging in the cattle
business, being one of the organizers of the Esperanza Cattle Co" and later man ·
aging several large c0! l1panies He came to Phoenix in 1894, opening the first
permanent wood and coal business in the Territory, under the name of the Phoe­nix
Wood and Coal Co" to which was added later" The Curio," By energy,
perseverence and strict attention, this combined business has grown to its present
large dimensions, " The Curio" has become one of the features of the town, and
proves a great attraction to tourists, who are frequent visitors to the place,
For two years ML Benham served as Live Stock Inspector at Phoenix, a
difficult place He received the warmest of praise from the leading stockmen for
impartial and intelligent administration and unvarying attention to his duty..
He later superintended the building of the wagon road from Hot Springs Junction to Castle Creek Hot Springs, twcnty- five
miles over mountainous country. He also superintended the digging camp of the Canaigre Company, where 150 to 175 men
were emplo} ed His political career began early, fpr he has always been a staunch Republican His effectiye political work
was recognized by Governor Irwin, who appointed him Live Stock Sanitary Commissioner { l'om Coconino County. He received
the Assembly nomination by acclamation, In the Legislature he is known as one of the most active members,
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SAMUEL BROWN,
Member of the Assembly from Maricopa County
RMONG THE Republicans of Maricopa County there are none who are relied
upon more implicitly for' efficient work in campaign times than is Samuel
Brown, of Tempe, Public office has been offered him repeatedly, but until last
fall he has constantly refused, He was elected to the office he now holds by a
very substantial majority, testifying the esteem in which he is held, not only by
his party but by the people of the County at latge"
Mr. Brown was born in San Francisco, California, May 23, 1852, but was
reared in Los Angeles, where he se(' ured his schooling, and where he was early
apprenticed to the blacksmithing trade.
He came to Arizona in the spring of 1879, to take charge of the extensive
shops of c.. T Hayden, at Tempe.. For a dozen years he has been in business
for himself at Tempe, having one of the largest blacksmithing establishments in
the Territory, He has repeatedly been a Trustee of the Tempe School District, and in the present Legislature is an especial
advocate of the interests of the Territorial Normal School, located at Tempe, Every Republican convention for the past six-
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teen years has seen him the occupant of a seat,
He was married in 1880 to Miss Bertha Gallardo, and has one child.
Cerritory of Hrizona.
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CHARLES PETERSON,
Member of the Assembly from Maricopa County
- r'HE LONE Democratic member from Maricopa County in the popular braneh
"" of the Legislature is Charles Peterson. He is a native Western man, born
January 28, 1854, in Alpine, Utah County,. Utah, about sixty miles south of Salt
Lake City. He was reared in the beautiful Weber Valley, in Morgan County,
Utah. When twenty years of age he was married, at Coalville, Utah, to Miss
Clara fane Lewis, whose father is well known in Arizona as one of the pioneer
settler~ of the eastern Salt River Valley.. Nine children have come frum the union,
the eldest being twenty- four years of age. He had early aptitude for machinery
and for several years was a railway engineer on the Union Pacific.
In January, 1879, Mr. Peterson moved himself and family by wagon over­land
from Utah to Arizona, being among the first to discover the latent possi­bilities
of the soil where now is the thriving town of Mesa, one of the most
beautiful settlements of the Salt River Valley, He airled in the struggle of the
pioneers to bring water from the river to the thirsty land, but since then has
participated in the prosperity that has come hom redeeming the desert.
From 1895 to 1897 Mr Peterson had the interesting experience of serving as a missionarv in Ireland for the spread of
the beliefs of his church, that of the Latter Day ' Saints of Jesus Christ, his trip abounding in novel and ofttimes exciting
episodcs On his return he resumed the fanning and mercantile pursuits that had engrossed him before, and which he has left
to fulfill the duties of political office for the first time.
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WINFIELD SCOTT t
Member of the Assembly from Maricopa County.
' t: HE SENIOR member of Maricopa County's delegation in the Legislature is
Chaplain Winfield Scott, a man equally skilled in the ways of war and the
arts of peace- who led his fellows beneath the Stars and Stripes on many a hard­fought
field, and yet at the time was an ordained minister of the Gospel- and
who now literallv leaves his vine and fig tree to labor for legislation he believes
best for the people's needs.
He was born in Oakland County, Michigan, February 26, 1837. In 1861,
a graduate of the Rochester ( N.. Y) Uni versity and Rochester Theological Semi­nary,
he was called to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Syracuse.
But the war came on and he took up the sword, marching south at the head of
Company C, 126th New York Volunteer Infantry.. September 23, 1864, he was
mustered out on accoUl1' t of incapacitating wounds.. He was wounded at Mary­land
Heights, twice at Gettysburg, and had two more wounds at Spottsylvania
Courthouse. One of those last noted was serious, a shell tearing away the mus­cles
of the thigh. On partial recovery he returned to the pulpit, becoming pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Lem, enworth, Kansas. Later he presided over the
work of important churches in Denver, Col., San Francisco. Oakland, San Jose and
Los Angeles, Cal.. He was made Doctor of Divinity by California College in 1878.
In 1882 he was appointed Chaplain in the regular army. On account of recurring trouble from his wounds, by executive
ord'er March 26, 1898, he was retired. While awaiting retirement he established himself as a fruit farmer at what is now
known as Scottsdale, northeast ~ f Phoenix, and there has now his home. He was married in 1861, and is the father of three
living children.. He is an orator of exceptional ability, and was a leader of the Republican speakers in the local and Terri­torial
campaigns last fall..
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WILLIAM IMUS,
Member of the Assembly from Mohave Count)'"
MOHAVB C, OUNTY has as her representative in the Assembly William Imus,
J .... familiarly termed at home " The War Horse of Hackberry." A Democrat of
the old school, and an active supporter of the party's principles, he yet is filling
his first office. Mr.. Imus was horn at Galena, Illinois, in October, 1832, and was
reared in the same County, where his father owned a saw mill and farm. In
1849 he left Illinois with his father, by ox team, for the journey across the plains
to California. But Mr.. Imus, senior, did not tarry with the Sierra placer mines.
A practical lumberman, he pushed on to Santa Cruz County, on the coast, and
there attacked the then virgin forest of redwood. The younger Imus for a year
tried mining, but, though moderately successful, turned back to the redwood
forest for greater profit.. He has many interesting tales of his early California
experiences · - how he, as a boy, raised one season 3,000 sacks of potatoes, which
he sold for 9 cents a pound, a gross return of over $ 30,000 for a single season's
,. work, and how he and a partner made about $ 20,000 on a single cattle drive
from Los Angeles north.. In 1855 he went to ranching in Monterey County, where he lived for twenty- seven years. In 1859
he married Miss Sarah Rucker. Of the four children born to them only one is living, the stalwart son now the Assembly
Sergeant- at- Arms.. Mr.. Imus moved to Arizona in, 1881, after the death of a brother, with whom he owned cattle grazing
near Camp WiIIows.. In northern Arizona no cattle- raising firm is better known than is W.. Imus & Son, and in Los Angeles
and elsewhere on the coast extensive property holdings are to be found in the firm's name
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WILLIAM ALBERT PARR,
Member of the Assembly from Navajo County,
1\ JAVAJO'S REPRESE:' ITTATIVE in the Assembly wasbom in Northumherland,
J" Ontario, Canada, April Fl, 1855, He was educated in Canada in the com­mon
schools, and at maturity was qualified to earn his own living, both as a
farmer and carpenter.. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1882, There for
five years he prospered as a building contractor. In 1887 the fame of the
" boom" caused him to move to Los Angeles, Cal.., where he spent another half~
decade of years. In March, 1891, he carne to Arizona, settling at Winslow, and
there he has since remained. He is one of the most active men of his horne town,
having built fully seventy- five per cent of the business blocks and residences of
Winslow. Whenever there is business to be done " Parr' does it." He went to
Winslow with four dollars in his pocket, and now is owner of half a brick block
and thirteen dwellings. Four years ago he was appointed Justice of the Peace,
an office which he held for two terms, He was appointed U. S" Court Commis · ·
sioner in 1896. After refusing several tenders, in years past, he was prevailed upon last year to accept the nomination for the
Legislature, and was elected by the largest majority ever known in the County.
He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary Clarke, of Ontario, and has two living children. Possibly on this account he is
particularly interested in school laws such as will benefit the corning generation.
t: el'l'itory of Hrizona.
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ALFRED S. DONAU,
Member of the Assembly from Pima County..
MR. DONAU was born in New York City December 18, 1865, and in that
} '.. 1. metropolis secured an academic education" He came west to Denver, Colo­rado,
in 1879, there to spend several more years in school.
In 1883 he came to Arizona, to take a position with L. Zeckendorff & Co.,
at Tucson. He remained seven years in this employment. In 1890 he joined his
father at Tacoma, Washington, and participated in many of the troublous finan­cial
episodes of the boom that then was prevailing in that locality. In 1894 he
returned to Tucson, and went into the cattle business.
He is now Vice- president and General Manager of the Arizona Land and
Cattle Company, with a magnificent range in Baboquivera Valley, the home
ranch being thirty- two miles from Tucson. He has mined a little in the same
County, with the usual success of the casual miner.
Last year he was the Territorial delegate- at- Iarge to the Denver Convention of the National Live Stock Association, and
was chosen a member of the Association's Executive Board for 1898.
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Mr. Donau has had no previous official experience.. In the current Legislature he has been particularly active against the
bills for the division of Pima County.
C", entietb Legislature,
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OTIS RICHMOND HALE,
Member of the Assembly from Pima County
' CHE OFFICE of Assemblyraan would seem to be hereditary in the family of
Otis R. Hale, one of Pima County's Representatives.. Two years ago his
father, Hiel Hale, a veteran of the Civil War, was a valued member of the
same body, sent by the Republicans of Yuma County, where he was a tempo­rary
resident while holding the responsible post of warden of the Territorial Peni­tentiary
The present member was born in Cedar I{ apids, Iowa, in February, twenty­six
years ago.. There and at Fort J\ ladison, Iowa, he lived until his ninth year,
when his family moved to Arizona.. He obtained a practical and ample educa"
tion in the schools of Tucson. By occupation he is a machinist.
It is his first office, though since his majority was attained he has been a
member of several Republican County and Territorial Conventions. In his home town of Tucson last fall he lerl the Legisla­ti\
e ticket, the vote well showing the high appreciation in which he is held by the people of the" Old Pueblo," among whom
he has been reared. His acknov. ledgment of the courtesy is in the nature of especial care for the interests of his constituents,
with particular attention to legislation affecting the University of Arizona, at Tucson.
Cerritory of ]: Irizona.
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GEORGE PUSCH,
Member' of the Assembly from Pima County"
F. lS TYPICAL a representative as any man could be of the cattle- raising and
marketing iuterests of Arizona, is George Pusch, the jovial senior member
from Pima County.. He was born near the historic city of Frankfort, Germany,
June 24, 1847, Like so many of his compatriots, he came westward for his for­tune,
arriving in New York in 1865. He has wandered practically all over the
United States, and throughout all his experience he has been identified with only
a single industry..
Mr,. Pusch came to Arizona in 1875 First he was at Prescott, later going
to Tucson, He has many pleasant reminiscences connected with his experiences
in making the journey through Arizona with a sixteen mule team. At Tucson
the firm of Pusch & Zellweiger leads in supplying meat to the city, and on the
Pima County ranges the brand of " P Z" is known to every cowboy,
He has had prior legislative experience, having been a member of the Arizona Assembly in 1891. He has also been a
member of the City Council at Tucson, and in the Legislature is a zealous guardian of the interests of the Ancient Pueblo by the
Santa Cruz. He is pre- eminently a business man, and although a consistent partisan, has had little to do with the practical
side of politics, He , vas married in 1881, and has seven children,
Cwentieth Mgislatul'e,
( 46)
FRANK AUSTIN STEVENS,
Member of the Assembly from Pima County
' CHE SUBJECT of this sketch was born in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania,
in the eastern part of the Keystone State, September 3, 1860" At the age
of sixteen he went to Philadelphia, where he gained the major part of his
education.
Mr.. Stevens came to Arizona- in 1879, joining relatives in Tucson, and fill,
ing a position in the Bank of Safford, Hudson & Co. In the palmy days of the
great copper camp of Globe, in 1880 and 1881, he was a member of the force
of the mercantile establishment of Buckalew & Ochoa, and spent a while, as well,
at the Indian agency of San Carlos, trading with the Apaches, an interesting
experience Later, for a while he turned fr'eighter, his teams hauling coke and
bullion between Willcox and Globe in the days when the White Mountain and
Warm Spring Apaches were on the warpath, and the death of a teamster or
two a day was not uncommon.
In 1883 he went to Quijotoa in the employ of the Bonanza firm. He was Postmaster of the camp for several years, and
later managed a store for himself. His life has since been spent mainly in Tucson, in the mercantile business, though for a
while he was connected with the Duquesne Mining Company, near the Mexican border.
Though always a staunch Republican he has never before actively identified himsel! with politics, save that in 1892 he
was his party's candidate for Shetiff.
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JAMES EZRA ARTHUR,
Member' of the Assembly from Pinal County"
O NE OF THE few Republicans elected to office last November in Pinal County
was J.. E" Arthur, who now occupies a desirable front- corner location in the
hall of the Twentieth Assembly.. He is a New Englander by nativity, being born
in St,. Johnsbury, Vermont, in January, 1856. He lived in the Green Mountain
State till his twenty- first year, securing his education in the common schools in
the vicinity of his home..
On arriving at maturity he went to San Francisco, thence visiting nearly
all parts of the Golden State, mainly concerned in mining pursuits, In 1882 Mr
Arthur came to Arizona, to fill for six years a position in the Silver King mill at
Pinal, then even better known as Picket Post, In those days the King mine, five
miles away, held rank as the phenomenon of silver mines, and Pinal, now
deserted, was one of the most prosperous camps of the coast..
In 1888 Mr.. Arthur took a journey to South America, for a while manag-ing
the milling plant of a gold mine in the Republic of Colombia, 200 miles south of Panama.. While in Arizona he had
acquired interests in cattle and land in Pinal Countv, and to these he returned, He since has been engaged in fanning and
stock raising in the vicinity of Florence. r
In July, 1897, Mr.. Arthur was married, at Mesa City, to Miss Annie Whitlow, daughter of one of the pioneer's of Pinal
County. He has never before helrl office, though always a consistent and active Republican.
t:", entieth Legislature,
( 48)
SIDNEY A. BARTLESON,
Member of the Assembly from Pinal County,
' CHE JUNIOR member from Pinal County, now a law makel', has heretofore
principally concerned himself in the enforcement of the laws.. In his twenty­first
year he was chosen constable of his home town of Florence, and for several
terms filled that office, in addition being Deputy Sheriff of the County and Deputy
United States Marshal f( l! his district He has had many exciting experiences in
connection with the apprehension of malefactors. One experience, in particnlar,
is of southvl1estern repute, how, in 1895, after the Dry Lake stage robbery, on
the Casa Grande road, he captured Francisco Riena. The episode was a short and
dramatic one Bartleson ran his man down near Altar, Sonora, after chasing
him two hundred miles within four days The grand jury had found a true bill
while he was gone Court was in session, and trial was had at once on the
charge of robbing the United States mails.. Conviction was secured, and just ten
days from the date of the robbery Bartleson landed his prisoner in the peniten­tiary
at San Quentin, California, under sentence of imprisonment for life.
Mr. Bartleson was born in Cass County, Missouri, September 9, 1868. In 1880 his family moved to Florence, where his
father became interested in mining, and where the present legislator was reared and educated. His home on the outskirts of
the town is one of the show places of the Gila Valley, abounding as it does in remarkable specimens of tropical vegetation ..
Though the last male of his family, he is at this writing unmarried ..
Cerritory of Hrizona.
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W. S. ADAMS t
Member of the AssemblJ from Yavapai County,
" CRE GUI LD of newspaper men has a representative in the Honse in William S.
Adams, of the prosperuns copper mining cnmp of Jerome, where he condnets
the lvIining News" In the present session his work has been mainly connected
with the interests of the mines, and in him the mine owner has found a cham­pion,
sleepless and untiring.
He is a native of Ontario, Canadn, born at Spencerville, Grenville County,
on the usnally deemed unlncky day of Friday, March 13.. The year was 1858
He was educated at Prescott, Canada, and after graduating hum the schools of
the Province entered a printing office. When eighteen years of age young Adams
came to New York City, for three years being a member of the mechanical staff
of the Century Afagl1zine. Then he went west to Horicon, Dodge County, Wis­consin,
where he managed the Horicon Reporter until 1887, at the same time
filling the position of J nstice of the Peacc" The mining excitement at Creede, Col­orado,
drew him to that camp, where, till silver lost its standing, he was one of
the bnsiest of citizens. .,' I. t different times he ran, at Creede, The Daily Amet~ yst
and The Daily Chronicle, and a paper at Spar City, eighteen miles a way. He
was appointed as a Silver Democrat Connty Commissioner for the new County of Mineral, and was elected chairmpn of the
Commissioners. Coming to Arizonn, he lived at Prescott nine months, thence going to Jerome.. In Jnnumv, 1898, he w~ s
married to Miss Mabel Clarke, ofJerome. Lnst Legisl'at1l1' c he served as Chief Clerk of the House, and ilis fm~' iliarity with th~
rules made him an especially valunble member in this session's early days. He is active in secret society \\ ork, belonging to the
Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Red Men, and has held all the highest offices in the local divisions of each order..
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ATLANTIC ABRAHAM MOORE,
Member of the Assembly from Yavapai County
ONE OF THE quietest members of the Legislature. yet one who has been found
by his associates fully capable in all matters of parliamentary procedure, is
A.. A.. Moore, one of the Representatives of Yavapai County. He has had pre­vious
Experience in a similar capacity, Twice he was a member of the House of
Representatives in the Kansas Legislature, and he served one term in the Senate
of the same State, Then, as now. he was a Democrat, but occupied a very differ­ent
status from his present position as a portion of a party majority,. In Kan­sas,
during one session, he was one of the fifteen Democrats in the State Legis­lature
out of the one hundred and five members,
Mr,. Moore was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1834, His people mowd
soon after to Illinois, and then to Dodge County, Wisconsin.. When twenty- four
years of age he went to Kansas, after a brief employmeut in the government ser­vice,
during which time, with a wagon train, he penetrated into the then wild
countrv of Central New Mexico. He established himself as an Indian trader at the
crossing of Cottonwood River, in western Kansas, In 1876 he left Kansas by mule team and pursued the same old Santa Fe
trail westward.. He settled at Prescott', afterward moving to Walnut Grove, where he had his first taste of Hassayampa
water.. He spent the four years preceding 1881 back in Kansas, but was compelled to return to Arizona for his health, He
has since been resident at Walnut Grove, He was married in 1862, and has a son and daughter now living,.
Cerritory of Rrizona.
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JOHN J. SANDERSt
Member of the Assembly fr'om Yavapai County"
UMONG THE Assemblymen who have known prior legislative service is J. J.
n Sanders, of yavapai County In 1894, while a resident of Burke, Idaho, he
was elected to represent Shoshone County in the Idaho Legislature. He was
elected as a Populist, particularly representing the miners of the northeastern part
of the State, and found himself a portion of a minority of fiftEen Populists and
one Democrat. He remembers his experience as a very pleasant one, however, for
it was the session wherein occurred the famous senatorial fight between Shoup
and Sweet, and the divided Republican majority furnished an ample fund of amuse­ment.
In the present Legislature Mr.. Sanders has put forth his best efforts to
secure laws that will protect the working miner, and that will compel the great
producing mines to pRy their rightful proportion of taxation. Himself a practical
miner, he has had large experience in lines that have brought him a thorough knowl­edge
of these subjects He entered into mining in Montana, in 1885, with the
Anaconda Company at Butte, and went to Idaho in ' 90, in time to participate on the side of the Miners' Union in the great
labor troubles of the Cceur D'Alene district.. In 1896, after a short visit East, he came to Prescott, Arizona, where he has
since held his residence, engaged in mining in several'parts of Yavapai County. Mr.. Sanders is a native of Wisconsin, born in
Darlington, Lafayette County, in the southwestern part of the State. Reared in that city, he passed through its High School,
later taking a course at the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N.. Y., graduating in 1882
C", el1tieth ~ egi51ature
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JOHN DOAN,
l\ fernber of the Assembly from Yuma County.
'\" 7' UMA COUNTY for its representative in the House has selected John Doan,
t He was born in Pike County, Missouri, and raised in Arizona. By his
brother legislatms he is termed the " kid member" of the Twentieth, being only
twenty- three years old at the present writing"
When Me Doan was only six years of age his parents moved with him to
St. Louis, where he was placed in school" In school he remained until the fall of
1888, when his parents, with John in custody, located on the Gila River, in Yuma
County, Since that time, he then being a boy of thirteen, his life has been one
continuous round of action" He was gi\ en the customary training of an Arizona
rancher's boy, taking a chance at the plow- share, the a1f~ t1fa field, the irrigating
canal and the cattle and horse range After a two years' breathing spell, while
at St" Louis attending school, he entered the employ of W,. H" Dickinson, a Yuma
County grocer, as bookkeeper He was later employed in the store of the Harqua
Hala Gold Mining Co., in Yuma County, and for the last three sears has held
the position of local secretary with La Fortuna Mining Co"' in Yuma County.
In the Legislature Mr Doan has stood the brunt of many attacks upon the permanence of the location of the
Territorial Penitentiary at Yuma, and has a~ well concerned himself particularly with measures calculated to advance the
interests of the miner and to secure the exploration and development of the rich mineral districts of the Territory, He is
actively a portion of the Rcpublican minority of the Assembly.
eel' 1' itory of Hrizona.
BARTLESON, IMCS AND DONAU,
PARR, ETZ AKD SCOTT,
DONAU, GONZALES AND PARR,
MIL SPEAKER, EVANS AND DROWN.
Counties and County Boundar'ies:
MOORE, PUSCH, STEVEKS, WOODS AND PARR"
Claims:
Militar y and Indian Affairs:
Corporations:
ADAMS, \ VILLIAMS, HALE, WOODS AND EVANS"
Memorials and Petitions:
Federal Relations:
WOODS, WILLIAMS AND Erz
Agr'iculture:
AI~ THUR, MOORE AND PACE,
Irrigation:
SCOTT, DOAN, PACE, WILLIAMS ANIl IMUS"
Territorial Library:
HALE, MOORE AND PETERSON
Education:
PETERSON, PARR AND SANDERS
Rules:
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WILLIAMS, EVANS, DOAN, GRAY AND HALE,
EVANS, ETZ, PARR, WOODS AND DONAU
BENHAM, DONAU, ETZ, PUSCH, PETERSON, BAR­'
I LESON AND IMUS.
ADAMS, BENHAM, IMUS, SANDERS, BARTLESON,
J udiciar'y:
Pt'inting:
Live Stock:
Mines and Mining:
SANDERS, WOODS, DOAN, IMUS AND BARTLESON"
Elections:
Appr'Opriations :
GRAY, BARrLESON, GONZALES, SANDERS, SCOTT"
Enr'OlIing and Engrossing:
ETZ, WILLIAMS AND BROWN.
Public Expenditures and Accounts:
IMUS, ETZ AND STEVENS,
Public BUildings and ur'Ounds:
PARR, MOOHE, GRAY, BROWN AND ARTHUR"
Tert'itorial Affairs:
DOAN, ADAMS, EVANS, MOORE AKD GONZALES,
Ways and Means:
PACE, SANDERS, GRAY, PErERSON AND PUSCH,
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J\. Jrss L EOlIA STUKEy
COllunittee Clerk
H E BROOKS,
Committee Clerk
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EIll'olling and Engrossing Clerk
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Assistimt ] oumaJ Clerk
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. Joumal Clerk
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STATE HOUSE
PHOENIX, ARIZONA
NEW CAPITOL OF ARIZONA"
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I LEGISLATURE__-
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BY
] AS. H. McCLINTOCK.
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CITY HALL, PHOENIX
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. I- $ 11 $ THE TWENTIETH SESSION__ sdlo.... ­~
llRIZONA'S TWENTIETH Legislature convened in Phoenix January 16, 1899. Each of the two bodies was called to order n. by its eldest member, the Council by Judge J. M.. Murphy, and the House by Mike Gray.. Organization was effected
without friction by the selection of Morris Golct water, of Prescott, to be President of the Council, and of Henry F. Ashurst,
of Williams, to be Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The session, limited by law to sixty days' duration, will expire March 17th It has been notable throughout for an excep­tional
degree of conservatism. Widely differing with previous Legislatures, it has passed few bills, a very small percentage Of
the measures introduced finding favor with a majority of the members. A record for economy has also been made through
lopping off much of the usual contingent expense..
In political inclination both branches are Democratic. In the Council are eight Democrats and four Republicans; in the
House the parties stand more nearly on a par- thirteen to eleven. In personnel, few of the members are advanced in years..
To a majority the present legislative experience is their introduction to any kind of political office.. In the Council eight of the
twelve members are married; in the House the Benedicts are also in the majority, numbering ftJUrteen, The usual occupations
of the thirty- six are varied incteed, embracing ten stockmen, eight merchants, six mechanics, five farmers, three practicing
attorneys, two miners, one physician and one journalist.
The present session is, in all probability, the last to be held in the City HaIl of Phoenix, a building which well has
served as temporary Capitol since 1889, when the seat of government was moved from Prescott.. Though the Territorial
Government has been comfortably and centrally housed, it has been deemed best to erect a permanent CapitoL Under the
authority of Congress bonds have been issued for this purpose to the amount of $ 100,000. Thus substantiaIly backed, work
was begun in February of this year upon the foundations of the new structure.. The buildIng will face the western end of
Washington Street.. While not as imposing a pile as many erected in other Commonwealths, it yet will be large enough for
all executive and legislative purposes ft) r years to come, and in point of architectural beauty wiIl be eminently satisfying.
Around the site already is a park in which for years have been cultivated the rarest and most beautiful of trees and shrubs.
ewe", let!> Mgl5lature,
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Cerritory of Hrizona.
( 7)
NATHAN OAKES MURPHY,
Governor of the Territory of Arizona,
f EW WEST ERN men have been honored by their fellow citizens as has been the present Executive officer of Arizona. Twice
has he received appointment to the office he holds, a double compliment never before known to have been paid a Terri ·
torial Governor The present term dates from July 16, 1898, when he was commissioned by President McKinley to succeed
Governor Myron H .. McCord, who had resigned office to accept the Colonelcy of the First Territorial Volunteer Infantry.. His
re- entrance to office was greeted with pleasure by the citizens generally, all fully appreciating his peculiar fitness for the place..
In his dealings with the sitting Legislature Governor Murphy has shown himself frank and fearless to a degree hitherto
unknown in his position. In his message, presented at the opening of the Twentieth session, his ideas were strongly and
clearly expressed. Especially dealt with was the condition of the Territory's finances. Economy and honesty were demanded
in the administration of public affairs, and industries evading taxation were boldly enumerated. The Governor is particularly
interested in the development of the southwestern" deserts," appreciating that only through such development can Arizona
eYer attain dense population or prosperity to any high degree. His views on the su~ ject are clear, and through communica­tions
addressed to the Legislature and to Governors of Western States and Territories, he has set forth the strongest argu- ·
ments for Congressional cession of all arid lands to the States and Territories that contain them.. Through the sale of these
lands in Arizona all necessary reservoirs could be constructed, and the productive agricultural area could be quadrupled ..
In 1889 N 0 Murphy was selected by the President to be Territorial Secretary of Arizona. Two years later, in May,
1892, he 10gicalIy succeeded to the Governorship, having for more than a year previous been, in all but name, the ferritorial
Executive.. He was a member from Arizona of the National Republican Convention held in Minneapolis in June, 1892, and there
sucl'eeded in first plating in a national platform a statement of the necessities of the arid region.. In November, 1894, in the
fal'e of a popular idea that Arizona was strongly Democratic, he was elected by a large plurality Territorial Delegate to Con­gress,
where his service to .,\ rizona was both active and effective
Governor Murphy is a native of Maine, born in Lincoln County, in 1849. After receipt of a high sl'hool education he
taught for a while in Wisconsin. In 1883 he came to Prescott to engage in profitable Arizona mining ventures with his
brother, Frank M. Murphy, now president of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway Company.. In Prescott Governor
Murphy was married to Miss Nellie Banghart, daughter of one of the oldest families of northern Arizona. Fruit of the union
is one l'hild, a son, now in school in the East..
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Cerritory of Hrizona.
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CHARLES H. AKERS t
Secretary of the Territory of Arizona
NEXT IN importance to that of Goyernor in Arizona is the office of Secretary of the Territory This post is now ably and
}., popularly filled by Charles H. Akers. appointed by President McKinley Mav Hl, 1897, For a while succeeding appoint­ment
he acted as Governor, pro tern.. Mr.. Akers had strong claims upon the National Administration He was a leader in
the Arizona delegation to the National Convention, and his influence was one of the principal causes that s~ ung the Territory
into line for William McKinley
The first political experience ever had by the present Secretary was in 1888, when, he was elected Reconler of Yavapai
County, Arizona His success was doubly gratifying from the fact of securing a substantial majoritv in a strongly Democratic
Countv. In 1890 he was re- elected. In 1892 he was the nominee of his party for Sheriff, but with the balance of his ticket
was c~ ught by a politi~ al lamlslide.. He then took the place of clerk of Supervisors, holding it for four vears He was then a
member of the realty firm of Akers & Tritle till transferred hom Prescott to the more important duties of the present position
Charles H. Akers was born in Millersburg, Iowa, in 1857, two years later his parents mo\ ing to Shawnee, Johnson
County, Kansas, where he was reared, and where he secured his education, His father, a practicing ph\ sician, continued his
residence in Shawnee till his death. Kansas, when c.. H., Akers was a youth, was alternately cursed by grasshoppers and
drought, and so he departed thence, He was at times a brick- yard employe, a herder for railroad contractors, a butchcr's employe,
a fire engine house tender and a miner He came to Arizona in February, 188L In this Territory he worked in a saw mill
near Prescott, in the store of W.. S., Head & Co, at Camp Verde, at mining in Tip Top District, amI as a section hand on the
Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad, at Tempe. His main idea in life has ever been to keep busy. In 1888 j1e retnt! 1ed to Pres­cott,
to take employment as a bookkeeper.. Theneeforward his time has been oecupied in the publie service
The Secretary has twice been married His first wife, who had been Miss Emily Philpott, of Prescott, diect in May,
1889, while the couple were on their wedding trip, December 1, 1891, he w~ s again happilv mated to Miss Jennie Bryan, of
Phoenix.. From the union have sprung three bright children, respectivtly named Bryan, John Kelsey and Henry Harlow
In his dealings with the Twentieth Legislature Secretary Akers has made every member his friend, by reason of uniform
courtesy and by attention to every need that his office should supply.
NATHAN OAKES MURPHY,
Gover'nor'"
BRIG.. - GEN. H. F. ROBINSON,
Adjutant GenemI.
:;: as
CHARLES H. AKERS,
Secretary of the Territory..
R. L LONG,
Superintendent of Public Instruction ..
G. W. VICKERS,
Auditor · ..
C. F .. AINSWORTH,
Attorney General.
T.. W. PEMBERTON,
T r'easur'el'.
E.. J BENNITT,
Citizen Member Board of Control..
Territor · ial Board of Equalization
JOHN A .. BLACK..
E. A .. CUTTER.
R. H .. BURI\ IISTER
TERRITORIAL AUDITOR.
( Ex Officio.)
Member · s of the Board of Education,
Territorial Normal Schools:
H. Z ZUCK, Tempe..
A. A. DUTTON, Flagstaff:
JAS H. McCLINrocK, Phoenix.
SUPT OF PUBLIC INS [ RUCTION
( Ex- Officio )
TERRITORIAL TREASURER..
( Ex- Officio. )
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HERBERT BROWN,
Super · intendent Territorial Prison.
IRA P. SMITH.
Assistant Supt. Territorial Prison.
Regents of the Territorial University:
M .. M PARKER, President..
S .. M .. FRANKLIN.
J. H .. MARTIN
WM.. HERRING, Chancellur..
GOVERNOR.
( Ex- Officio)
SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
( Ex- Officio)
Members of the Live Stock Sanitary Board:
\' 1.. C. BARNES, President..
A. C .. MCQUEEN.
W. F. NICHOLS.
DR J c.. NORTON,
Territorial Veterinary Surgeon.
DR JOSHUA MILLER,
Superintendent Territorial Insane Asylum.
t: el' 1' itory of H: rizona. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
MORRIS GOLDWATER, PRESIDENT,
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MEMBERS.
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Apache County, D K. UDALL, R Mohave County, J M" MURPHY. D
Coconino County, T. S" BUNCH, D Navajo County, GEO, A" WOLFF, D
Cochise County, CHAS, C, WARNER, R Pima CCJUntH~' J B. FINLEY. D
Gila County, G. W" P" HUNT, D Pinal County, DR A" C, \' VRIGHT, R
Graham County, GEO. A. OLNEY, D Yavap3i County, MORRIS GOLDWATER, D
Maricopa County, AARON GOLDBERG, D Yuma County, J H. CARPENTER, R
D- Democrats, 8, R - Repu blicans, 4,
Employes of the Council.
Chief Clerk, E. J TRIPPEL Assistant Chief Clerk, R S, MACLAY Enrol1i!' g and Engrossing Cletk, FRANK LUKR,
Assistant Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks, F T.. DUFFY and P" C, MERRILL
Journal Clerk, R. H, JONES Assistant Journal Clerk, J W MORGAN
Committee Clerks.
MAUD SCARBOROUGH H, L FULI. ER. J L, BYRNES MRS" R. C, FLETCHER
Chaplain, REV J,. M. WEHMS Sergeant- at- Arms, ' TIl B KELLY
Page, SIDNEY OSBORN
Watchman, W',. P,. ROBERTS
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urritory of arizona.
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PRESIDENT MORRIS GOLDWATER,
Member of the Council from Yavapai County,
JVI ORRIS GOLDWATER, p. resident of the Council, was bom in London, England, in 1852. In 1854 he landed in Califomia,
his parents arriving by what is known as the Nicarauguan route. In 1867 Mr.. Goldwater came to La Paz, Arizona,
where his father was engaged in business, and in 1871 they opened a store in Phoenix.. Mr.. Goldwater was instrumental in
havina- the military telegraph line built into Phoenix. furnishing office room and instruments, and was the first operator. In
1873 "' he was nominated for the Legislature by the Democrats of Maricopa County, but only tied his opponent, and a new
election was ordered by the Governor.
In 1876 Mr Goldwater located in Prescott, where he still resides. He has held a number of offices, none of them, how­ever,
being very lucrative. Twice Mayor of Prescott, and for four years on the City Conncil, he was re- e1ected to the position
last election. Mr, Goldwater was a member of the Council in the Twelfth Legislature, and Chief Clerk of the House of
Representatives of the Thirteenth He served one term on the County Board of Supervisors, three years on the County Board
of School Examiners, and three years on the Territorial Board of Equalization. Mr,. Goldwater was a member of the first
Territorial Democratic Convention held in Arizona, and served one term as chairman of the Territorial Central Committee of
his party.
In the present session of the Legislature the head of the Council has been active in many other ways than in his presid-ing
capacity. He has worked indefatigably for his home County and constituents, and to the end of carrying out the pre­election
pledges of his party.. Among his bills are those for the creation of a Board of Public Works, and for the removal of
the Territorial Penitentiary to a site near Prescott; to lower the rate of interest on Territorial warrants to 7 per cent; limit­ing
the terms of Territorial officials to two years; reapportioning the legislative representation of the Territory, and others
bearing upon County and municipal administration and education, In the chair his rulings are accurate and rapidly given,
and his relations with the Council are marked with even a greater degree of cordiality than that which prevailed when he
was made the unanimous Democratic Council caucus nominee for the position of President,
Mr,. Goldwater in private life is recogniz Legislature.
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DAVID KING UDALL,
Member of the Council from Apache County.
" CHE REPRESENfATIVE of Apache County in the Legislature is David K. Udall
At home he is better known as thc President of St.. John's Stake of the
Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ, a posItIOn that practically makes him the
business manager as well as spiritual adviser of one of the largest communities
of the Mormon Church in Arizona..
He was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 7, 1851. His parents, who had
previously, in England, embraced the f~ lith of Joseph Smith, moved West by ox
team across the prairies in 1852 to Utah. His father, who had become a Bishop
in the church, settled in Juab, in the central portion of Utah. There, until he
was twenty- five, lived the subject of this sketch. He married, in 1875, Miss Ella
Stewart, daughter of Bishop Stewart, of Kanab, and from the union have sprung
eleven children Soon after marriage the couple moved to Kanab, near the south-ern
border of Utah.. Within a few months, however, the bridegroom was sent by
his church on a mission to England, where he remained several years laboring for converts, mainly in London.
In 1882 ' VI r. Udall moved to Arizona to St. Johns, and there and at Springerville has lived ever since. He has farms,
grist and saw mills, and, as well, has been an extensive mail contractor.
This is his first civil office, though he has always been a pronounced I{ epublican ..
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MEMBERS.
R _. Republicans, 11.
Apache COllnty, - - N.. GONZALES, R Maricopa County,
Coconino County, HENRY F .. ASHURST, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, MIKE GRAY, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, HENRY ETZ, D Maricopa County,
Cochise County, H.. M.. WOODS, R Mohave County,
Gila County, JOHN c.. EVANS, D Navajo County, -
Graham County, E. M.. WILLIAMS, D Pima County,
Graham County, W.. W. PACE, D Pima County,
D- Democrats, 13..
- SAM BROWN, R
WINFIELD SCOTT, R
- J. W. BENHAM, R
CHAS.. PETERSON, D
WILLIAM blUS, D
W. A. PARR, D
GEORGE PUSCH, R
F .. A. STEVENS, R
Pima County, ­Pima
County,
Pinal County, ­Pinal
County,
Yavapai County,
Yavapai County,
Yavapai County,
Yuma County,
Ons HAIE, R
ALFRED S.. DONAU, R
JAMES E.. ARTHUR, R
S A. BARTLESON, D
J J. SANDERS, D
A.. A.. MOORE, D
W.. S.. ADAMS, D
JOHN DoAN, R
Employes of the House.
Chief Clerk, W. D.. BERRY Assistant Chief Clerk, JOHN HOOPES, JR Ent'olling and Ehgrussing Clerk, H. J .. MRSSE~ GER"
Assistant Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks, C" F" MARSHALL, MAMIE MEAGHER.
Journal Clerk, P. P. PARKER Assistant Journal Clerk, C \ V PARKS
Committee Clerks.
JESSIE M. SMITH.
Chaplain, REV L .. J. HEDGPEtH.
LEOTIA StONEY J D MOORE
Sergeant- at- Atms, JOHN IMUS
Page, ED\ V ARD HAKES
A. CABALLERO II. E. BROOKS.
Watchman, ~ EORGg H. HUNT,
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SPEAKER HENRY F. ASHURST,
Member of the Assembly from Coconino County
HS FAR as can be le~ rned, Arizona, in Henry F .. Ashurst, boasts the youngest officer who has ever permanently prcsidcd
over a legislative body in the United States. Mr.. Ashurst bears the unique distinction of election to the Legislature dur · ·
ing the first year of his majority.. Last fall, two years later, he was re- elected. He now occupies the chair of Speaker, the
unanimous choice of the Democratic majority of the Assembly.. His first election to office was by a handsome majority, in a
Cqunty usually c1eemed safely Republican. To his second term he comes chosen by his constituents unanimously, regardless of
politics, the Republican convention refusing to nominate an opponent.. He has given close study to the usages of parliamen · ·
" Lary bodies. His decisions are usually quickly and accurately given, and under the rule of his gavel the sessions of the House
have been uniformly serene.
Speaker Ashurst has lived in Coconino County practically all his life. He was born in Winnemucca, Nevada, twenty- four
years ago.. Soon after that interesting event his parents moved to Arizona, where, in the timbered district of the Mogollon
Plateau, his father engaged prosperously in cattle raising.. Young Ashurst's schooling was mainly in Flagstaff, Arizona, and
in Stockton, California.. He spent several years in mercantile pursuits in Williams, and for a while assisted in the manage­ment
of his father's ranch.. In 1897 he was admitted to the practice of law in Arizona before Associate Justice Owen T. Rouse,
and is, curiously, the only actively practicing attorney of the Assembly. His specialty is criminal law, in which line it is
believed he has the best practice of any lawyer along the line of the Santa Fe Pacific Railway. In the Legislature he is
notably active in all measures that concern the development of Northern Arizona. He is sponsor in the House of the bill
utilizing as a Normal School the Reform School building at Flagstaff~ and has pushed as well a bill for the encouragement of
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railway construction, with an especial eye to the building of a railroad from Williams to the Grand Canyon of the
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N. GONZALES,
Member of the Assembly from Apache County
" CHE ONLY pure- blooded representative in the Twentieth Legislature of the
Spanish- American portion of Arizona's population is Nasianceno Gonzales,
representing Apache County in the popnlar branch of the law- making body.
Though one of the youngest of the members, he has already achieved the distinc­tion
of a veteran in politics Ever since he attained his majority he has been
identified prominently with the affairs of the Repnblican party in his Connty, and
has been a delegate to every County Convention. Twice before his election to
the position he now holds has he been nominated for office" Seven years ago he
was elected Jnstice of the Peace of Springerville; two years later he was the can­didate
of his party for County Recorder, being defeated by only fonr votes For
years he has been secretary of the Ronnd Valley Ditch Company. At the last
term of the District Court in Apache Connty, he was foreman of the Grand
Jnry"
Mr. Gonzales was bom in Socorro County, New Mexico, May 2, 1867.
Since 1876 he has continuously been a resident at Springerville, one of the most
beautiful towns of Southern Apache County, situated in the piney woods, near the headwaters of the Little Colorado River..
His main occupation has been farming, and he is the owner of a valuable and productive ranch. He was married four years
ago to Miss Beatrice Peralta. In this session he has been especially active in reference to all matters affecting agricultnral
and stock interests, representing as he does the most important sheep raising section of the Territory. His name has also
been identified with several important measures for the better protection of {' be ballot.
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MIKE GRAY,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County
R: NOT UNUSUAL practice in legislative bodies is to call upon the eldest mem-ber
to convene the initial session of the assemblage. In the Assembly of the
Twentieth Legislature this honor fell upon Mike Gray, of Cochise County. Mr.
Gray was born in Tipton County, East Tennessee, in Davy Crockett's district,
April 1, 1827, of Kentucky parentage, When he was five ' years old the family
moved to Texas, there to remain till after the close of the Mexican war, In 184- 9
he started with his father for the California gold fields. by way of St" Louis. In
Wyoming his father died of fever The lad passed on, however. He mined, with
good fortune, in Calaveras County and on Yuba River, In ' 51, though only
twenty- four, he was elected Sheriff of Yuba County, and so held down the reck­less
element of the period as to win a second term. In ' 61 he went to Mazatlan,
Mexico, remaining five years. and prospering in trading and mining, Financially
hurt by one of the then frequent revolutions, he returned to San Francisco, to
educate his children, He first visited Arizona in ' 60, on his way south. In " 72
he was back, with a government escort, and explored the northeastern part of the Territory for mineral, with indifferent suc­cess.
In ' 78 he came to Arizona to live, being identified with the first mineral discoveries at Tombstone, and has lived in the
neighborhood of Tombstone ever since. He mined" till sixteen years ago, when he started cattle raising in Rucker Canon, his
present home. In 1887 he serTed as a memher of the Fourteenth Legislature, Mr" Gray is a widower. He was married in
' 53 at Marysville, Cal., to Sarah A" Robinson Four children were born to them, only one now living
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HENRY WILLIAM ETZ,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County.
- I) W.. ETZ was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1859.. He went to Tomb-
+ stone in 1881, and engaged in the cattle trade and in butchering, when
the great camp was in the height of its boom, and when the cowboys from the
San Simon and Sulphur Spring Valley ranges were the lords of the region. He
is still in the same business, though located at Benson, the junction point where
the Sonora road taps the Southern Pacific system, a to'An that has large aspira­tions
and not a few natural advantages.. Here he is the senior member of the
firm of H. W. Etz & Co., with cattle ranges on the San Pedro River, south of
Benson..
Mr.. Etz has never before held a public office, though he regularly has been
a delegate to the Cochise County Democratic Conventions for the past ten years.
While he has been offered several nominations for political office, he has never,
notwithstanding urgent solicitation, previous to this accepted.
He was married in 1889, in Tucson, to Miss Ada Nye, and has five children..
His main efforts in the present session hav~ been directed to the prevention of the division of his County, though
he is one of the members who prefer to work in the committee room rather than to orate upon the floor of the House.
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H. M. WOODS,
Member of the Assembly from Cochise County"
J) ENRY MORGAN WOODS, member of the Assembly representing the southeast..
ern County of the Territory, was born and reared in Massachusetts.. His
birthplace was Southboro, the date of his nativity being May 12,1855.. His edu­cation
was secured in excellent schools at Lancaster and Templeton, He
remained in New England till able to cast his first vote for a Republican Presi · ,
dent, when he, like a majority of the adventurous youth of Massachusetts,
started to win his fortune" out \\' est,," His first stop of consequence was at
Forth Worth, Texas, where he spent two years, Hearing of the wealth of the
silver mines of southern Arizona, he then resumed his westward journey. The
transportation was by mule train. for no railroad then existed, in 1879, between
Fort Worth and Yuma, The trip was made with peculiar good fortune in avoid­ing
Indians, that then fairly swarmed on the route, He prospected about for a
while through southeastern Arizona, mainly in Dos Cabezas District and in the
Chiricahua Mountains. In March of the succeeding year he went to Tombstone, to have a part in the feverish activity that
then pervaded the mines of the camp, His first employment there was in the Contention Mine, under Superintendent" Si"
White, He lived in Tombstone until 1892, when he' accepted a place with the Copper Queen Mining Company, at Bisbee" He
has since then continued in the company's employ. In 1886 Mr. Woods was married to Miss Letta Steele, of Charlotte,
Michigan, the union having been productive of three ehildren..
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